Gordon

Kintore, in
Gordon between 1975 and 1996

Gordon was a district council area which existed from 1975 to 1996.
It was one of five district councils that delivered a range of local level
services within the wider area of Grampian Region,
which over this period was one of the 12 regions into which
Scotland was divided. The name of the district came
from the family name, Gordon, of the Earls (and later the Marquesses) of
Huntly.

When regions and districts disappeared from the scene in the 1996
reorganisation, the area of Gordon became part of the unitary council area of
Aberdeenshire. For administrative purposes,
Aberdeenshire is divided by the council into
six smaller areas. What had previously been Gordon District ended up forming
parts of the Formartine, Garioch and Marr administrative areas. Although Gordon
District has officially ceased to exist, the name lives on in a Scottish
Parliament constituency, and in a wide range of other bodies as diverse as a
Scout association and a cricket club.